Urgent uni essay help

So my UNI uses Turntin for posting essays and stuff and I just posted mine and I got a similarity report of 32%....I heard that's terrible. I swear I cited everything...but idk what to do. This is my first ever UNI essay as well...what's going to happen???? I'm lowkey scared.

Hi,

Turn-it-in can be the cause of a lot of stress for so many students (myself included) so I completely understand where you are coming from.

I would advise you to read the similarity report and see where the system is highlighting that there is plagiarism. Sometimes it highlights similar articles that you have unintentionally cited and in those cases, it's a simple case of finding that paper and referencing them.

If there aren't any major referencing recommendations and it's simple words such as 'and', 'the' and 'is' that everyone uses sometimes the system decides to count them as plagiarism. In this case, there really isn't much you can do. I'd possibly recommend contacting your module lead and asking, once you've checked that everything is cited, and ask them if this score would be acceptable.

I know some universities don't fuss over turn-it-in scores too much as they can see themselves through similarity reports whether a student has plagiarised or whether it's common words that have bumped the score up.

I hope this puts your mind at ease and best of luck with your assignment!

Mary,
London South Bank University Student Rep (3rd-year Children's Nursing)